Altruism, redistribution and social insurance
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Cohesion , Insurance and Redistribution ∗
Governments use redistributive policies to favor relatively unproductive economic sectors. Traditional economic wisdom teaches that the government should instead buy out the agents in these sectors, and let them relocate to more productive sectors.We show that redistribution to a sector whose agents have highly correlated incomes generates an insurance value. Taking this insurance value into ac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Economic Design
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1434-4742,1434-4750
DOI: 10.1007/s100580000027